The game project we’re developing, Kingdom War, has now entered its final sprint. I’m heading back to Shenzhen at the end of July, and I hope to have it finished before then. Since I’ve been busy ...

Blizzard Entertainment® Offers Players a Choice of Multiple Payment Models**【April 9, 2010, Taipei】**Blizzard Entertainment® announced today that the highly anticipated real-time strategy game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, in its Traditional Chinese version, is coming to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, priced at NT$1,950 (HK$488). After purchasing the game, players can join the newly updated Battle.net® for online matches at no additional cost. In addition to buying the product package, Blizzard Entertainment will also offer players a choice of other payment options so they can enjoy StarCraft II, with details of the relevant payment plans to be announced later.

This morning, by sheer chance, a portal dropped me into “Adoogen - Connecting Game Lovers Everywhere“. A few minutes of scanning the whole site told me what I needed to know — this is exactly the kind of game community site I’d been hoping for.

Cheat mode In the game, you can use Niko’s phone to enter the following cheat codes and activate the corresponding cheat functions. Note: don’t save your game after using them, to avoid unforeseen problems. Some cheat codes may affect achievement unlocks. Replenish health Dial “ 3625550100 “ on your phone. Note: this code affects the achievements for “Cleaned The Mean Streets”, “Finish Him”, “One Man Army”, and “Walk Free”.

After watchingthe Chinese Paladin 3 TV series, I hunted around online for something worth revisiting, and by chance stumbled onto a whole series of game dubbing dramas.

EA recently announced that it will release Command & Conquer 4 in 2010, and the game will take players through the finale of the Tiberium War saga. EA really is prolific. We’ll get to see Kane again next year. I’m rooting for Kane, hehe.

The new Battle.net for World of Warcraft still hasn’t shown any sign of life today, so let’s try a few new games instead. Remember playing The Sims years ago? That cookie-cutter AI really wasn’t much fun at all, and I got bored of it fast. If an online version of The Sims ever came out, I’d be rolling up my sleeves and would definitely have to give it a go. And what do you know — Yangbo Network recently put out a 3D online life-simulation game: Life Online!

EA - The Lord of the Rings: Conquest 09-01-13 SEGA - Empire: Total War 09-03 EA - Red Alert 3: Uprising EA - The Godfather II 09-02-24 Blizzard - StarCraft II 09-05-31 (Canada)

Lately Bear has started actively asking to play Tiberium… Damn it, back when I was at school I’d have to beg you to play and you’d still haggle over it (no to this, no to that…), and now that everyone in the dorm has gone their separate ways, you’re the one who wants to play. Orz. A few old screenshots:

The game I’ve been waiting for — one that breaks the mold — has finally been discovered!